After 200+ days of living out of my backpack, four different countries and cultures, walking for miles a day, eating rice every meal, language barriers, team times and feedback sessions, ministry hosts and various types of ministry, laughter, tears, heartbreak, friendship and so much more, I am coming HOME!
The last nine months of my life has been incredible and an adventure for sure but it also has just been life. I have lived with the same type of emotions that you have experienced at home. I have laughed. I have cried, a lot. I have had fun but I’ve also had to make some difficult decisions. I have experienced a lot but I’ve also missed out on a lot.
There is so much good from this past year of my life and I don’t want to discredit that but I also don’t want the past nine months I lived to be hyper glorified by any means. I’m certainly thankful for the opportunity I was blessed with in this past year but I’m certainly anxious for what’s to come next.
I sit here in Leon, Nicaragua in my last day of final debrief and I am trying to picture what it will be like to be home but I still, after weeks, have yet to feel like I can put it into perspective. I’m looking forward to it for sure because I know that there is so much good in store for life at home but I don’t think I will understand what it’ll be like until I’m in it. With that said, I can sit here in Nicaragua for one last day or three more weeks but it won’t be until I am in it all that it will make sense.
As I return home, I simply ask for grace and understanding that this transition is different and difficult. This transition involves needing to get re-acquainted with the American life just as much as it did when I had to acquaint myself with the foreign world. This transition involves time and I know that in that I will be okay again. Transitions involve change and sometimes it takes me a while to adapt to that but I know that I didn’t live the past nine months of consistent change for nothing. This season that I am leaving was a season of preparation and the Lord has called me home being prepared, so I know that with Him I will be okay.
The anticipation to see all of you from home is overwhelming but I’m looking forward to it. There are so many stories and experiences from this year that I would love to share with many of you and your lives that I would love to hear all about. If you’re interested in sitting down at any time, I would love to arrange that with you. Feel free to email me at [email protected] or send me a text (603)545-2483.
Tomorrow morning my squad and I will travel to Managua where we will fly out around noon time. I arrive in Miami around 4:30 and there is where I will spend the night before flying into Boston on Sunday afternoon.
See you soon!
